Eugene V. Debs Quotes
I do not want you to follow me or anyone else; if you are looking for a Moses to lead you out of this capitalist wilderness, you will stay right where you are. I would not lead you into the promised land if I could, because if I led you in, some one else would lead you out.
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All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land.
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By virtue of our private property society, we have disconnected individuals from the land. We have put them in high rises and asked them to live their lives in urban settings, disconnected from the land.
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The Land of Israel goes with the Torah of Israel under the sovereignty of the State of Israel.
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As long as there's land available, single-family homes will be built, and Colorado residents will always go for a single-family over a condo.
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If we can't afford to take good care of the land that feeds us, we're in an insurmountable mess.
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I love Canada. It's a wonderful political act of faith that exists atop a breathtakingly beautiful land.
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The settlement of the Land of Israel is the essence of Zionism. Without settlement, we will not fulfill Zionism. It's that simple.
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When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.
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The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.
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They're criminals, they brutalized Afghanistan, they killed our people, they destroyed our land.
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Buy land, they're not making it anymore.
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A land may be said to be discovered the first time a European, presumably an Englishman, sets foot on it.
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Green, the color of growth, or surgent life, enwraps the land. New green, still as individual as the plants themselves. Cool green, which will merge as the weeks pass, the Summer comes, into a canopy of shade of busy chlorophyll.
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[On The Waste Land:] Various critics have done me the honor to interpret the poem in terms of criticism of the contemporary world, have considered it, indeed, as an important bit of social criticism. To me it was only the relief of a personal and wholly insignificant grouse against life; it is just a piece of rhythmical grumbling.
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Utopia's quite another land;
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You may fly over a land forever; you may bomb it, atomize it, and wipe it clean of life - but if you desire to defend it, protect it,and keep it for civilization, you must do this on the ground, the way the Roman Legions did - by putting your soldiers in the mud.
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Maybe she was drunk - the woman never could drink. One little sniff of tequila and she was off into some blonde la-la land.
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I can promise you none of these things. No sphere of usefulness; you are not needed there at all. No scope of your talents; only forgiveness for having perverted them. No atmosphere of inquiry, for I will bring you to the land not of questions but of answers, and you shall see the face of God. (pg 40)
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Mr. Obama plans to boost federal spending 25 percent while nearly tripling the national debt over 10 years. Americans know that this kind of spending will have economic consequences, including new taxes being imposed by the new progressives.
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Bullying is a national epidemic.
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You learn far more from negative leadership than from positive leadership. Because you learn how not to do it. And, therefore, you learn how to do it.
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when all of life becomes crowded with profound and weighty matters, making time to engage in trivial things becomes an even greater priority.
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I do not want you to follow me or anyone else; if you are looking for a Moses to lead you out of this capitalist wilderness, you will stay right where you are. I would not lead you into the promised land if I could, because if I led you in, some one else would lead you out.
